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Installing Kohler shower system

02-16-2009, 10:59 PM

Any information on this subject would be greatly appreciated. I am getting ready to install a kohler shower system including two 54 nozzle body sprays, a 54 nozzle shower head, and a 4 tile overhead water tile. The thermostatic valve and volume control valves are 3/4" but all the fixtures have 1/2" inlets. When is the best time/place to reduce? Also when building a pressure balancing loop for the body sprays I am confused on how to "T" off to the body sprays. Best of all this is all in a 2 X 4 wall.

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Yes I am doing this myself, unfortunately. I have a kohler thermostatic mixing valve, 3/4". I think the number is K-669. Then I have 3 volume control valves (kohler 671 I think) , one to the body sprays (kohler 8002, two of them), one to the shower head ( kohler 8022), and one to the overhead watertile (8030).

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Go to Kohler.com and they have a performance showering planner , it shows the general way to pipe in most of the items that you have , and you can fit it in a 3 - 1/2 wall but it's tight . Reduce the pipe as close to the head as you can , it gives the head as much volumne as possible